Linking with the Sunday Muse for Muse #175. This week our image is brought to us by Susie Clevenger an amazing Muser, poet, and friend! Thank you Susie!
Come join us!
Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend
. ~Robert Brault
Love is the deep void and the grand expanse
The rushing river yet the desert sands
A place we know but don’t understand
The most elusive bird of all
I held you once on a starlit night
Soft like feathers yet hard like might
My heart held on and it held on tight
But you flew just like a bird
My heart flew through lovers and stranger’s eyes
My arms reaching like branches no one could climb
I tried to give what was never mine
For my heart had flown away with you.
Pure romantic perfection! Truly the most elusive bird of all.
ReplyDeleteAh, you're rhyming this week.
ReplyDeleteA most beautiful interpretation of the prompt, Carrie. The bird image of love is so apt. "Soft like feathers yet hard like might"--What can be truer than this?
ReplyDeleteThe contradictions dance like a tango
ReplyDeleteHappy Sunday
Much❤lovr
This is such beautifully romantic melancholy Carrie.
ReplyDeleteThis lands with a thump right in the chest. Beautiful.
ReplyDeletelove is definitely and elusive bird that we cannot fully understand. sigh
ReplyDeleteThis line especially will stay with me for a while .... { I tried to give what was never mine } !!
ReplyDeleteThis made me sigh! So beautiful!
ReplyDeleteSad and beautiful
ReplyDeleteLove the opportunistic rhyming. And especially this: "My heart flew through lovers and stranger’s eyes"
ReplyDeleteOh love, we risk the breaking. This is so beautifully written. I feel it.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous, romantic writing, Carrie. I like where you used rhyme.
ReplyDeleteI can feel the ache in this - you write beautifully.
ReplyDeleteLove is a contradiction in other words... Very nicely put :)
ReplyDeletea very heart felt poem, enjoyed very much
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